They hopes to win the keys to the White House. Instead, they got tickets to Yankee Stadium.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose presidential aspirations collapsed in humiliating defeat in Florida last year, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the failed GOP veep pick, enjoyed a game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday.

The GOP political duo and their spouses exchanged laughs, smiles and small talk as they watched the Yanks take on Tampa Bay. At one point, Giuliani snapped a photo of his wife, Judith, with Alaska's First Couple.

Giuliani invited the Palins to the game when he learned they would be in town this weekend.

On Saturday, Palin was in upstate Auburn, marching in a parade to raise money for a museum honoring William Seward, the former secretary of state who bought Alaska from Russia.

Sunday night on Long Island, the self-described pit bull with lipstick received an award from Independent Group Home Living Foundation, a nonprofit that supports people with disabilities. Palin's youngest son, Trig, has Down syndrome.

While her trip here was billed as nonpolitical, she found time at an event on Saturday to criticize President Obama's national security and energy policies, as well as his handling of the nation's economic crisis.

But Sunday's meeting at the ballpark was purely casual, a source told the Daily News. Giuliani, who is eying a bid for governor in New York, and Palin, who may run for the White House in 2012, were just enjoying the game, the source said.

The Palins left sometime in the sixth inning for the awards dinner.

"We brought her here because of her advocacy and her stance as a parent," said Walter Stockton, head of the group that honored Palin. "Whether she was a Republican or Democrat really didn't matter to us."

Rudy has good and bad going for him, but I do credit him with staying what he believes and not taking s__t from the media. While most of the loser Republicans are out bashing Palin as unnamed sources, Rudy is out in public with her. Good for him.

I guess that depends on who it’s “better” for - us or him? It’s better for me that he’s a has-been, but as for his place on the national political stage, it would have been better for him to be a “never-was” as far as I’m concerned.

Yeah, well that “baby and bath water” thing kind of sums it up. He’s a pro-abortion “white belt and shoes” Republican politician. Effective as a local politician against crime, but that’s his absolute limit. And, even at that, I wouldn’t want his elitist, autocratic, martinet ways governing my city. I said it a long time ago, I say it again now and I’ll say it as long as I live: Rudy will never get a vote from me.

She can be friends and colleagues with Rudy without taking on his beliefs and attitudes. Why not garner support for herself from all corners of the party? She’s not going to change her beliefs in order to get that support; she showed that during the campaign of 2008.

Why not? In my opinion, because the “party” is toast. Bunch of phonied-up frat boy cheerleaders and car salesmen. Between the RNC and the DNC, elections are just deciding whose turn it is on top in the gang bang. We are the “bangee”. Screw them both.

There are many more people in the GOP than the clueless leaders. She recognizes that she’ll need as much support in the GOP as she can get, from folks who are politically and monetarily influential, as well as the guy on the street. Who knows, she might even help bring some folks back to the conservative side, once they see a strong leader expounding those ideas again.

Yep, and RG is a ruthless SOB who hates the UnAmerican Democrat Party and their commie media...campaigned on cleaning out anti-Americans from the US State Dept, and has CAMPAIGNED for pro-life, pro-gun Republicans since l998 (2 right here in my state).

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posted on 06/10/2009 8:11:49 PM PDT
by roses of sharon
(We must get a grip on what we can, and hold on. Hold on with energy, imagination, and ferocity)

I think that was a very different time. We had not gone through so many lies and betrayals by Republicans posing as conservatives. Reagan had a ready sort of political apparatus which could attract voters to him and to the party. Will there be another figure of Reagan’s stature? I hope so, but I don’t think whoever it is will find the Republican Party as useful or viable vehicle.

We had not gone through so many lies and betrayals by Republicans posing as conservatives.

But we can spot them, now, and we can respond immediately to them when they try to snow us. We didn't have that capability even 20 years ago, before x42 got into office. That's why it seems so much more contentious now; we can react much more quickly.

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